Specialist Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• CIB International Payments for PAN Africa is looking for a passionate and engaged .Net Software Developer to apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

• Our team provides systems and capabilities to process both Incoming, Outgoing and Off-Absa cross border payments via SWIFT.
• As a team, we continuously strive to streamline our processes, ways of working, and creating room for innovation.

Education and critical skills required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience and practical application is evident
• 5+ years hands on software development experience
• Excellent programming skills in .Net
• Technical leadership, critical thinking and DevOps focused
• Advance knowledge on Microservice’s architecture
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
• Understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST

​Additional skills/experience that will be an advantage:

• MSSQL
• Angular / Blazor
• Kubernetes (Rancher, Docker)
• Cloud Architecture Patterns
• Event Based Architecture 
• Open telemetry knowledge a plus
• Azure DevOps

Key Accountabilities: DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / Instana and tracing using Jaeger
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology